[Mageia-dev] Strange behaviour - installed package doesn't show when doing a 'rpm -qa' search??

[Guillaume Rousse]

Le 01/02/2012 08:57, Robert Fox a écrit :
> [root at foxbase Download]# urpmi --replacepkgs libXdamage1
> To satisfy dependencies, the following package is going to be installed:
>     Package                        Version      Release       Arch
> (medium "Core 32bit Release")
>    libxdamage1                    1.1.3        2.mga2        i586
> 9.3KB of additional disk space will be used.
> 5.6KB of packages will be retrieved.
> Proceed with the installation of one package? (Y/n)
>
> http://ftp.mandrivauser.de/mirrors/Mageia/distrib/cauldron/i586/media/core/release/libxdamage1-1.1.3-2.mga2.i586.rpm
> installing libxdamage1-1.1.3-2.mga2.i586.rpm
> from /var/cache/urpmi/rpms
> Preparing...
> ##################################################################################################################################
>        1/1: libxdamage1
> ##################################################################################################################################
>
>
> [root at foxbase Download]# rpm -qa | grep libXdamage1
> [root at foxbase Download]#
That's perfectly normal, rpm -qa only display installed physical 
packages (libxdamage1 here), whereas libXdamage1 is a virtual package 
provided by this last one. Just try:
rpm -q libxdamage1

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